Gandhi is revered as a historic leader, the father of Indian independence, and
the inspiration for nonviolent protest around the world. But the importance of
these practical achievements has obscured Gandhi s stature as an extraordinarily
innovative political thinker. Ramin Jahanbegloo presents Gandhi the political
theorist the intellectual founder of a system predicated on the power of
nonviolence to challenge state sovereignty and domination. A philosopher and an
activist in his own right, Jahanbegloo guides us through Gandhi s core ideas,
shows how they shaped political protest from 1960s America to the fall of the
Berlin Wall and beyond, and calls for their use today by Muslims